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The US Partnership

on Mobility from Poverty

The Urban Institute, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is supporting the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty. Led by chair David Ellwood and executive director Nisha Patel, the Partnership consists of 24 leading voices representing academia, practice, the faith community, philanthropy, and the private sector.

The Partnership's collective ambition is that all people achieve a reasonable standard of living with the dignity that comes from having power over their lives and being engaged in and valued by their community.

Partnership Members

David T. Ellwood
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy
Harvard Kennedy School
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology
Stanford University
Kathryn Edin
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Anthony B. Iton
Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities
The California Endowment
Lawrence Katz
Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Ai-jen Poo
Director
National Domestic Workers Alliance
john a. powell
Director
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
Eldar Shafir
William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Marta Tienda
Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Jeremy Travis
Senior Vice President of Criminal Justice
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Roxane White
Morgridge Family Economic Security Innovator in Residence
Ascend at the Aspen Institute

Staff